• Posted January 12th, 2008 at 01:17 EDT by PSU Staff
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Top 10 Multiplatform Titles of 2008:

10. Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
Developer: Pandemic


Hitting the PlayStation 3 as a sequel to 2005’s Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is expected to provide bigger environments, more weapons, and more destruction. Playing as one of three characters (all of which return from the first title), Mercenaries 2 will take place in Venezuela, where an evil drug lord has become dictator and must be overthrown by taking contracts from anti government guerrillas.



Mercenaries 2: World of Flames will include the following features:
- Realistic behavior in fire and explosions
- Use watercraft or swim across oceans, rivers, and lakes
- Everything you see is destructible (powered by Havok 4.5 physics)
- Co-op Multiplayer (Jump in and out at any time on or offline to play with your friends.)

9. Tom Clancy's EndWar
Developer: Ubisoft Shanghai


End War marks a change of pace for the highly acclaimed Tom Clancy series of videogames, taking the form of a real-time strategy title. Developed by Ubisoft’s Shanghai branch, End War takes place in the year 2020, where tensions between the United States, Russia and European Federation have reached breaking point, plunging humanity head first into Word War III.

Players will be able to take control of any single one of the three nations, and, much like Command and Conquer, endeavour to master each sides own unique strengths and weakness to utilize in combat against their enemies. For example, those who prefer cold hard steel and strength may go for Russia at the cost of speed, while those who tend to favour a more nimble strategy may wish to opt for the European Federation. Each faction has 150 unique upgrades, allowing gamers to customize their war machine to their liking.



As a Massively Online Multiplayer Real-time Strategy (MMO RTS) game, players can also look forward taking part in extensive online campaigns in over 40 different battlefields, and command up to seven different unit types, each with six different levels of experience. Building on the pedigree of a trio of truly excellent titles, including Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six and Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy’s EndWar looks to be yet another must have outing in this venerable brand.

8. The Last Remnant
Developed by Square-Enix


The Last Remnant is the next RPG in line to be delivered to us from Square-Enix. Not only will this be the first title from them to release simultaneously in Japan and North America but it will also be the first SE title to utilize the Unreal Engine 3. This also marks another first for SE, as this will be the very first time that Square has been forced to adapt to new technologies and ways of development. One of the best things going for the development of this game is the idea to broaden it away from the Final Fantasy-style creationism. Due to the way the battles will be handled, they have not tried to gear this game towards gamers of all ages, which can only work out for the best in the long run.

The story revolves around a young kid named Rush Sykes. His little sister has been kidnapped and he’s doing everything he can to retrieve her. The problem is, he accidentally gets pulled into a global conflict taking place over the “remnants.” Remnants just happen to be powerful sources of magic that have caused handfuls of wars throughout the world’s time. Accompanying Rush, is David Nassau; another young teen who happens to also be a Marquis but fighting for independence from a nation called Celapaleis.



The new battle system implemented in The Last Remnant is being called, “Turn Burst.” It’s described as being a command-based system that utilizes symbol encounters. You may be familiar to something similar to this had you ever enjoyed Shenmue, Kingdom ... (continued on next page)